Sun, 02 Aug 2015 18:21:39 +0000en-UShourly1Mon, 27 Jul 2015 23:41:45 +0000Lompoc, a city in the Santa Barbara County, holds an annual bicycle racing event to support the Lompoc Police Foundation. This event brings many people together to watch races, participate in them, and have the opportunity to win a whole lot of cash and prizes. 805 Criterium first started off as an one day event, but eventually grew to a three day event which consists of three challenging race courses.

Large events like these are bound to have signs and banners for the participants and viewers to have some sort of direction. Putting up banners and signs make it easier for people to send a clear message to a larger crowd. Here at Banner4sale, we have worked along side with numerous events by putting together large custom event banners in all different sizes.

805 Criterium created a banner with us displaying their main sponsors for the event. Creating a yellow background allows the sign to become more noticeable. This banner was an important asset to the event because it displayed 805 Criterium's purpose to benefit the Lompoc Police Foundation. We were honored to not only help 805 Criterium with their banners, but we also helped Avnte Apparel with their van wrap. Avnte Apparel is a new bicycle apparel brand and they were responsible in making the winning jerseys for the race.

We are happy to be apart of an event that is so dedicated to its cause. We hope for the best for the Lompoc Police Foundation!

]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 19:43:36 +0000We enjoy working with businesses that adhere to similar environmental friendly working conditions. We feel not alone in this journey to change and save our world to make it a better place.Eileen Fisher is one of them. Eileen Fisher, a very minimalistic women's clothing brand, started a program called Green Eileen to support the environment, and also to better the lives of women and girls. Through the many non-profit programs Green Eileen offers and supports, they give women and girls opportunities for self-empowerment and for their voices to be heard in this world.

The garment industry is a large industry that wastes a lot of their fabrics and contributes to air pollution. An average American throws away about 70 pounds of clothes each year. Green Eileen is a collection of gently used or donated Eileen Fisher clothing, which allows people to reuse the "waste" and make something out of it. Were helping them spread the word about their Green Eileen collection with few green vinyl banners.

Similarly, we are 100% equipped by solar panels on our roof, which means all the electricity that is used in our office and warehouse is produced naturally from the sun. We are glad to know that we are working with others who care just as much about our world and the people around us.

]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:33:41 +0000Banners and signs are a great way to advertise upcoming deals, events, or simply just brand awareness. They give an open opportunity for businesses to market their products. Banners and signs are seen so commonly in our everyday lives, and often influence our buying decisions. Recently, we worked together with Baker's Drive Thru to help their marketing needs. Baker's is not only popular for their quick, American styled meals, but they are also popular for their amazing deals. We know that Baker's Drive Thru, America's first twin kitchen, got their marketing tactics down. Since Baker's is a drive thru based restaurant, they mainly connect with their consumers through the drive thru. We created a foamcore sign for POP display. The sign is printed on white coroplast, which is a very common material for these types of signs.

It's time for you to market strategically and we can help!

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:23:31 +0000Wherever it is that you call home, having a sense of community at home is extremely beneficial. Being apart of a community will lead to living a happier life, and communities as a whole make society better because they offer assistance and support to individuals within the community, also providing stability.

One of the most common ways to foster a sense of the community starts with organizations. The areas with the greatest sense of community have either a city department dedicated to parks and recreation, or a citizen ran group that organizes to create events and opportunities for fellow citizens. Without a group or city department organizing events and distributing resources, it will be hard to create a sense of community since you won’t have the means to bring people of the community together.

Redwood City is lucky enough to have a Parks & Art Foundation dedicated to developing and supporting recreational programming, community services, and cultural activities. This enables them to have a wide variety of events throughout the year, appealing to as many interests as possible. Being at these events allows you to meet other members of your community, but more importantly it gives one the sense of belonging to the community.

Redwood City came to us looking for banners to advertise some of their events in the future, and of course we wanted to contribute to their community! We created vinyl banners for their Salsa Festival, Oktoberfest, and a circus that will be in town.

These are unlike any banners we’ve done before, as we had to specially fabricate them to fit on crowd barricades. No worries for our team though! Each barricade connects on the left side, so we created an opening on the banners where each barricade could latch on to the clips for the next.

These banners came out great and definitely make me want to see what these Redwood City events are all about!

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2015 02:11:18 +0000If you’ve ever been to Temecula, then you’ve heard or experienced the influence of wine in the region. Many call Temecula Southern California’s wine country, and with over 50 types of wine available the city lives up to its name. Believe it or not, the large availability of wine has created a new competing market in the area, craft beer!

Craft breweries have begun popping up left and right in Temecula, and this can partially be attributed to their adapting of barrel aging techniques that are used to create wine. Today, there are 8 different craft breweries in the Temecula area, providing all types of beers and flavors to choose from.

Wiens Brewing Co (pronounced “WEENZ”) is one of these breweries, and they along with the other breweries have quickly gotten involved in being part of the community. One of the neat things about Wiens Brewing Co is that they began with a winery, Wiens Family Cellars, so the barrel aging process is nothing unfamiliar to them. Wiens Brewing Co took part in the Temecula Valley Balloon and Wine Festival for the first time, where vendors of food, beer, and wine from across the Temecula Valley display their flavors.

This includes a Food & Wine pairing where chefs prepare multiple courses each having its own complimentary wine. There is also a Beer & Food pairing where each course is prepared with a different beer and chef, and participants get to sample each beer used in the recipe.

Wiens Brewing Co needed some signage for the Temecula Valley Balloon and Wine Festival, and we gave them just what they needed. In an effort to promote two of their beers, we created two retractable banner stands for their Deadpan Pilsner and Insomnia IPA. We also created a large banner of their name for the front of the festival.

With prior experience in the field, Wiens Brewing is definitely a brewing company worth giving a taste.

]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2015 01:08:59 +0000There's not too much that beats viewing art around the city. No...not an art gallery in the city...but actual art that is around and on the city. Murals are a great way of capturing art in the city, take the Jeff Soto mural behind Pixels for example, but are often seen as graffiti and are not given the respect they deserve.

We got to help put art around the city once again but in a different fashion this time. Getting to work with the legendary Shepard Fairey, he created an awesome graphic for Interpol and their song “Everything is Wrong” off their latest album El Pintor. This image was also used for the record cover of the single.

Once Shepard made the sweet design, we printed a larger than life vinyl banner that is currently hanging on the side of his Studio Number One. Its always fun getting to print for great artists like Shepard Fairey!

]]>Tue, 26 May 2015 22:41:44 +0000If you’ve heard about any of the big names in music recently, then Taylor Swift is nothing unfamiliar to you. Within the past decade, she has gone from releasing her debut album at only 16, and has catapulted into stardom, now being one of the most famous artists in our country and having over 70 million likes on Facebook.

To put it lightly, she’s become a pretty big deal around the world. Whether it be her melodic voice, her stunning appearance, or her jingle that you can’t get out of your head...the world is hooked on Taylor Swift. What do you do if the world is lovin’ everything about you? You go on tour of course!

Releasing her album “1989” at the end of 2014, Taylor has given her fans more of the music that they love and now they’ll have the chance to see it! Taylor Swift will be going on the 1989 World Tour, with a total of 78 tour dates across North America, Europe, and Asia.

In need of signage to advertise and be used during her world tour, we were asked to create some custom banners for her big trip! With her album titled 1989, of course the theme of the tour has to be in 1989! We created a banner of The 1989 World Tour written in a neon sign, and another of Taylor in a trendy outfit with her name and tour name above her and a copy of her album beside her.

We hope everyone enjoys Taylor Swift’s tour, as well as the signage we got to do for it!

]]>Mon, 11 May 2015 11:23:56 +0000In California, our beautiful environment isn’t doing so well in terms of being “environmentally healthy”. Pollution in metropolitan cities is steadily increasing, climate change is oddly changing our weather patterns, and to top it all off we are in one of the worst droughts we’ve ever seen. In light of all these detrimental conditions, we must start taking action to make our environment healthier.

To change our environment, we have to start with changing our community first. In our community, a few initiatives have been put together by a group of organizations in order to achieve this. It is always uplifting to see a group of organizations work together to help out their community, and this type of cohesion is needed in order to make large-scale changes.

Grow Riverside is a program whose goal is to create and promote a local sustainable food and agriculture system benefitting the community, environment, and economy of Riverside. The creators of the program wanted to reconnect Riverside to the rich agricultural history that founded the city, while aiming to solve problems faced today.

This program is jointly-organized by the City of Riverside and Seedstock, a company that develops local sustainable food systems through consultation and resource allocation. The key word here is sustainability, and creating an agriculture system that doesn’t deplete any more resources that our state can’t afford to lose.

We fully believe in sustainability and bettering the community, so we were honored to help Grow Riverside when they asked us to make a banner for their 2nd annual conference highlighting the future of local food.

Large in the center is the Grow Riverside name along with the name of the conference and the date. Below this, the neat Grow Riverside logo and website colorfully take up the bottom of the banner.

While this program may not be providing the biggest conservation, it is helping reduce some water use and promoting sustainable methods, which will reduce resource use in the future.

]]>Fri, 08 May 2015 13:20:10 +0000Its becoming that time of year again! The weather is warming up, school calendars are just about finished, and everyone is anxious for summer to start! Whether you have the time off like all the teachers we’re jealous of or not, everyone should enjoy their summers as if summer breaks still existed! I’m not saying to write off all your responsibilities, but have some fun and enjoy the weather however you please!

So what are you gonna plan for summer? Go out to events? Go out to eat? Time to think larger. Going on a vacation may be the most relaxing thing thing you do, and with so many beautiful places to see the sooner you start exploring the better!

Some of the most appealing vacation spots are those with breath-taking views, and these can be found on corners of the world we would never think to look for them. Thankfully, there are places that turn every rock looking for amazing spots to getaway, Outrigger Resorts is one of them.

Outrigger Resorts specializes in connecting people with resorts and accommodations to a variety of tropical destinations around the world. Some of their locations include 4 of the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, Fiji, Guam, Thailand, China, Vietnam, Mauritius (island off the African coast), and the Maldives (island off the Indian coast).

Outrigger takes people to some of the most beautiful locations in the world, so when they came to us needing a banner we wanted to properly show where their resorts can take you. With a picture from them, we created a HUGE banner of a group of small boats sitting on the water with a large group of stunning rocks behind them. The ocean continues past the rocks and blends in seamlessly with the blue of the sky, making it an amazing sight to see.

This banner is just a small glimpse of all the places Outrigger Resorts can take you, see what other spectacles await!

]]>Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:11:05 +0000Animation has come a long way from the days of our traditional cartoons. Out went our favorite classics like Tom and Jerry and in came the new age of cartoons propelled by digital animations and computer generated imagery. This new technology has revolutionized animations and cartoons, improving their once fuzzy quality to a crystal clear image consistent across multiple platforms.

The advances made in animation and digital imagery have not only improved the quality of cartoons, but have improved animated graphics of every form. Even with a conventional printer, you can print out animated images that are far superior than the quality you would have received not too long ago. Many media and design groups are using this to their advantage and producing amazing results.

PlainJoe Studios is a group that specializes in interactive media and design, greatly benefiting from the way digital animation has advanced within the past 2 decades. Some of their services include website development, environmental design, and media creation. They’ve provided solutions for many, most of which are exemplar representations of where digital animation and imaging is today.

Crossroads Church has used PlainJoe Studios for their digital media needs, which have come out flawless. Looking to decorate their environmental room, Crossroads Church had PlainJoe Studios create a few animals along with some scenery. They provided Crossroads with a full forest of fun for their room which we helped make life-sized. We took these animals and printed them onto metal, making them full-size, extremely durable cutouts. Check them out for yourself!

Each print is not only crystal clear, but the color used is so vivid that its makes each animal almost come to life!

As a whole, PlainJoe Studios did a great job in creating these impeccable images for Crossroads Church that we were more than happy to bring to life!